Participants take part in a small group exercise during the
workshop on Museum buildings and their collections at the
Centro de Conservação e Restauração
de Bens Culturais Móveis (CECOR), Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais in Brazil. The workshop, designed for teachers
of preventive conservation, was a testing ground for new approaches
to teaching and resource sharing. Photo: Luiz Souza.

Workshop instructors May Cassar (left) and Michael Henry
(right) lead participants in discussion. The instructors,
in developing the workshop sessions, sought to encourage participants
to address environmental issues of collections and buildings,
both as conservation practitioners and as teachers. Photo:
Luiz Souza.

To capitalize on the collaborative opportunities in conservation
education made possible by the Internet, the Latin American
Consortium has developed a Web site for its members. Although
the site is password protected and available only to Consortium
members, some materials generated by the project may be made
available on the Getty's public site in the future.

Participants in the spring 2000 workshop on emergency planning during a workshop exercise at the Museo Histórico Nacional in Santiago, Chile. The group surveyed exhibit rooms of the museum with regard to emergency
preparedness issues. Photo: Wilbur Faulk.

Evacuation techniques being demonstrated during an emergency
exercise at the workshop. The scenario was a fire in a museum
that required evacuation of people, attendance to the wounded,
and the movement of art objects from the "museum" to a safe
location. Photo: Wilbur Faulk.